6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other, possibly both.
Another angle to this story is the utter deception of the Europeans during the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Messr's Schröder and Chirac knew damn well that the charges against Iraq we well founded, but they chose to claim otherwise before the UN Security Council (and the world), and, as has been reported over the last several weeks, this obstuctionism allowed Saddam sufficient time to move his WMDs to Syria and other points unknown.
Axis of Weasel does not even BEGIN to describe the despicable acts of these so called allies.